The Secret Hours

Resumen del libro

Monochrome is a busted flush - an inquiry into the misdeeds of the intelligence services, established by a vindictive prime minister but rendered toothless by a wily chief spook. For years it has ground away uselessly, interviewing witnesses with nothing to offer, producing a report with nothing to say, while the civil servants at its helm see their careers disappearing into a black hole. And then the OTIS file falls into their hands. What secrets does this hold that see a long-redundant spook being chased through Devon's green lanes in the dark? What happened in a newly reunified Berlin that someone is desperate to keep under wraps? And who will win the battle for the soul of the secret service - or was that decided a long time ago? Spies and pen-pushers, politicians and PAs, high-flyers, time-servers and burn-outs ... They all have jobs to do in the daylight. But what they do in the secret hours reveals who they really are.

Biografía del autor

P B Mick Herron /B (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963) estudió en el Balliol College y reside en Oxford. Autor de reconocido prestigio en el género negro (finalista de los afamados premios Macavity, Barry, Shamus, y Gold Dagger y Ian Fleming Steel Dagger de la Crime Writers' Association), entre su amplia producción, de la que se han vendido más de cuatro millones de libros en todo el mundo, destaca la serie sobre Jackson Lamb y sus caballos lentos . Una saga aclamada por más de un millón de lectores que se ha traducido a más de veinte idiomas y ha triunfado en la televisión con Gary Oldman y Kristin Scott Thomas como protagonistas. Salamandra ha publicado en español las seis primeras entregas: I Caballos lentos /I , I Leones muertos /I (Gold Dagger Award), I Tigres de verdad /I , I La Calle de los Espías /I (Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award), I Las reglas de Londres /I y I En el país de los espías /I .<br>